Communication between CUPS & native linuxprinter driver.

[Ved Prakash]

> On 2008 Aug 22, at 2:46, Ved Prakash wrote:
> > As per my understanding CUPS acts as an intermediate between
> > application(print task) & linux printer driver "usblp". Am i right??
> > Or it really contains drivers?? Think every thing from usb printer
> > point of view.
>
> No, you still need the kernel usblp driver.  The CUPS backend simply
> knows how to access all the features of the usblp driver (as opposed
> to, say, a port9100 network printer or a parallel port printer).
>
> >  3. One more thing suppose i am going to use a brand new vendor usb
> > printer then only ppd file of that printer is enough to store in /
> > usr/share/cups/model as i have read in on of the reply in this forum.
>
>
> Generally.  But if the printer doesn't speak PostScript then you will
> need to install foomatic-rip as well.
>
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>

Thanks for replying.....
okie...ya usblp is the base usb printer driver.But i want to know
"Does CUPS contains addition driver to aceess the printer which is not provided by linux core kernel?"

& Any tool like LDP, PPR,....etc are require to connect any printer.


Please dont mind.......